I'm a 26-year-old college student at the University of Riverside, double majoring in creative writing and theater and planning to get my MFA in writing for stage and screen. Two of my favorite authors are Edgar Allan Poe (hence the "Raven" in my username) and Victor Hugo.

My Favorite Books

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. I love Erik. He is an amazingly complex, beautiful character. Michael Crawford is the voice of Erik. As for Christine, I love Emmy Rossum. I've never cared for Sarah's voice in the role; she has too much vibrato and sounds like she's in a car driving over a bumpy road or like she's singing underwater (or like she's driving in a bumpy car underwater). I hate Leroux Christine, although at least she's a better-developed character than the two-dimensional cardboard cutout ALW made her.

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo. I love this book. I have to say that it's my favorite out of the two Hugo books I've read so far (the other book being The Hunchback of Notre Dame). It takes me forever to get through Hugo's work (and I'm usually a very fast reader; I can zip through a several-hundred page novel on an uninterrupted afternoon if I want to) but oh, boy, is it worth it.This book is pretty amazing. Like so many of Hugo's other works, it involves a tale of the unfortunate and a pair of starcrossed lovers. This time, it's Gwynplaine, the heir to a British lordship who is captured by his father's political enemies and has his mouth carved into a grin. He is abandoned by those who disfigured him but finds shelter with a kind-hearted medicine man and philosopher named Ursus. Gwynplaine grows up working as a carnival act and falls in love with Dea, a blind girl who works with him. Things start to get complicated, though, when Gwynplaine's real heritage is discovered . . .

I would love to see a page for this great book dedicated on FF.Net. I'm going to start writing more The Man Who Laughs fics to try and get the attention of the admins.

I've written a play version of The Man Who Laughs. It has been edited and workshopped a few times and had its first public reading on May 4th at San Diego State University's Experimental Theatre.

ParodyWhen Christine decides to return to Eriks lair ALW Movie she gets more than she bargained for...alot more. Evry Phans phantasy has become Christine's nightmare with so many Eriks she doesnt know where to turn. Every adaptation possible included

A crossover with "The Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo. After saving a fellow disfigured soul from drowning, Erik finds himself ensnared in a conflict which threatens to tear his new-found friend from his true love, a blind girl.

A poem I wrote trying to capture both sides of Erik. He can be seen as a unique soul ahead of his time trying to find his own happiness in the world, but while he was seeking that, he was also killing in the name of love, which is a very slippery slope. So I wanted to show both those things, Erik as the sympathetic musical genius and Erik as the mad murderer, "the Opera Ghost".

Based on Norse mythology, with Tom Hiddleston's Loki in mind, of course. Fed up with the crazy antics he has brought down upon them all, the Norse deities finally decide to hold Loki accountable and stage a trial. He's going to need some help.

This is 'Cat', as in the singular for feline. Not the plural. Get it? Good. I don’t want any confusion. Now that we have that out of the way, I can tell my story." Otto, Andrew Lloyd Webber's cat, has come back from the dead to tell his side of things.

A one shot Phic based on the 1943 PotO. Erique Claudin has loved Christine Dubois for a long time. It is only when he discovers the conclusion of a horrid secret buried in his past that his feelings are thrown into conflict.